God's Word must be the guide of your desires and the ground of your expectations in prayer.

Riches are a blessing or a curse to a man according as he has or has not a heart to make good use of them.

To wait on God is to live a life of desire toward Him, delight in Him, dependence on Him, and devotedness to Him.

Scriptures were written, not to satisfy our curiosity and make us astronomers, but to lead us to God, and make us saints.

It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with.

It is easy to be religious when religion is in fashion; but it is an evidence of strong faith and resolution to swim against a stream to heaven, and to appear for God when no one else appears for Him.

The God of Israel is sometimes a God who hides Himself, but never a God who absents Himself; sometimes in the dark, but never at a distance.